Category: Miscellaneous

The Palm Beach County School Board on Wednesday voted 3-2 to pay about $5,500 in legal fees for attorneys to represent several school district employees and at least one school board members expected to testify in the upcoming extortion trial of controversial community activist Clarence Shahid Freeman.

Freeman was arrested and charged with attempted extortion and bribery more than a year ago and his trail is scheduled for November. According the …

A bill that would allow teachers, janitors or anybody else a principal or superintendent wants carry concealed weapons on school campuses passed another state Legislative committee this morning coming closer to the votes by the full House and Senate required to make it law.

HB 753, sponsored by Rep. Greg Steube, R-Sarasota, passed the House Justice Appropriations Committee this morning by a vote of 8-4. A similar version of the bill …

A drastically toned down bill governing how school textbooks can be chosen for classrooms passed the state House of Representatives’ Education Appropriations Subcommittee this morning.

School districts all over Florida including Palm Beach County had objected to the original versions of HB 921, sponsored by Rep. Matt Gaetz, R- Fort Walton Beach. The original bill eliminated all state oversight of the adoption of textbooks, most notably a list of state-approved textbooks …

A Vietnamese computer technician let go by the Palm Beach County School District in 2011 is suing the district, alleging that she was discriminated on based on her race and accent and then the district retaliated against her when she complained about the discrimination.

The Palm Beach County School Board is scheduled to meet in executive session on Wednesday with General Counsel JulieAnn Rico to discuss the case of Leha “Bonnie” …

The full Florida House of Representatives late Thursday passed a bill that would massively expand extracurricular eligibility in Florida schools and essentially allow traditional school, charter school, home schooled and online virtual school students to play sports or be in the band at whatever schools they want in some instances.

Palm Beach County School District officials have voiced some major objections to state control in recent years like its objection to a statewide standardized contract for charter schools and complaints about the plethora of unfunded mandates handed down to district from the legislature. But there is one area the school district staunchly wants the state to keep its hands on, the adoption of textbooks.